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17" Unibody MacBook Pro with Non-Removable Extended-Life Battery?
macrumors.com - 1/4/2009
17" Unibody MacBook Pro with Non-Removable Extended-Life Battery?
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9to5Mac reports that Apple will be finally be releasing a unibody 17" MacBook Pro at Macworld, but with an interesting twist. According to the rumor site, the new laptop will have a super slim non-removable battery. The advantage of the new design ...
Apple 17 inch MacBook Pro to go unibody, lose removable battery
9to5mac.com - 1/4/2009
Apple 17 inch MacBook Pro to go unibody, lose removable battery
— 9to5mac.com — Our folks in Asia are at it again with some pretty startling news.  The 17 inch MacBook... Pro is going Unibody like the 13 inch and 15 inch models.  That, in itself isn't really that big a deal, it was expected really.  The news is ... (more) Apple 17 inch MacBook Pro to go unibody, lose removable ...

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Apple: iWork 2009
iWork.com - 1/6/2009
Apple: iWork 2009
— iWork.com — Store Mac iPod + iTunes iPhone Downloads Support Search Meet the next generation of notebooks. The new... 13-inch MacBook. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro. Watch the new MacBook video. Hot News Headlines Read the latest news and information from Apple. The ... (more) Apple: iWork 2009

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appleinsider.com - 1/5/2009
Sources: 17-inch MacBook Pro, NVIDIA Mac mini due shortly
— appleinsider.com — Apple as early as Tuesday will introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a fixed internal battery and... a new version of the Mac mini, both of which will feature chipsets from NVIDIA, AppleInsider has been able to independently confirm. (more) Sources: 17-inch MacBook Pro, NVIDIA Mac mini due shortly

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AppleInsider:  Rumors fuel hopes for unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro

MacDailyNews:  RUMOR: Apple’s new 17-inch MacBook Pro to go unibody with non-removable extended-life battery

Engadget:  17-inch unibody MacBook Pro with non-removable battery rumored for Macworld

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Rumors fuel hopes for unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro
AppleInsider — ... not unlike the MacBook Air. Although a likely concern for professionals who may want the option of swapping batteries, the system design would supposedly make up for its fixed nature through a battery that runs for "much longer" than the five hours of the current model, though it's not known whether silver-zinc batteries or other new energy technology would be used to accomplish this feat. While the report has yet to be fully corroborated, Mac Rumors also says it has heard whispers of a similar plan. AppleInsider 's own sources were the first to suggest the 17-inch ...

RUMOR: Apple’s new 17-inch MacBook Pro to go unibody with non-removable extended-life battery
MacDailyNews — ... . MacRumors reports that they "feel confident that this rumor is likely accurate, as we have heard similar independent whispers." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "James W." and "RadDoc" for the heads up.]

17-inch unibody MacBook Pro with non-removable battery rumored for Macworld
Engadget — ... rumor, backed up by some "whisperers" at Macrumors, isn't really an earth-shattering surprise -- though the accompanying revelation that this model is expected to have a slim, extended-life, non-removable battery is rather eye-opening -- and somewhat disappointing, considering the lameness of non-removable batteries. We'll know for sure on Tuesday at the keynote. Read - Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro to go Unibody, sans removable battery (Silver-Zinc replacement?) Read - 17" Unibody MacBook Pro with Non-Removable Extended-Life Battery? ...

MacWorld 2009 Rumor Round-Up
Fast Company - Technology — ... such a device pretty recently this rumor gets rated as 40% possible . Unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro When the MacBook and MacBook Pro followed the MacBook Air into all-aluminum body designs last year, the 17-inch Pro was conspicuously left out. Now there are strong suggestions it'll follow its smaller and less powerful brethren into the clever unibody metal shell. But there's reportedly a twist: just like the Air, the 17-inch Pro won't have a user-removable battery. While this will surely anger some people, the reasoning is sound: Without the engineering required to make the ...

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More details on ‘super long’ battery life Wind U115 — CrunchGear
Here are some more details on that MSI Wind U115 Hybrid that we discussed earlier this month . The big selling point is the SSD + HDD setup, which allows the device to operate using the solid state drive while writing files to the hard drive, resulting in much longer battery life (MSI ...
T-Mobile May Send Extended Life Batteries to G1 Owners — I4U News
According to Boy Genius Report T-Mobile may be planning to do something for G1 owners that are seeing poor battery life from their devices. The battery life is widely held to be abysmal and the rumor has T-Mobile sending out longer run time batteries and n...
Philips Xenium X620 - a mid-ranger with great battery life — IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis
Philips is out with a new handset, part of their battery-savvy Xenium series. Nothing too spectacular here, although worth noting, nevertheless. Specs wise, the Xenium X620 comes with a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio, 2.4-inch QVGA screen, 3.2 megapixel camera that can take both photos and ...
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The Philips Xenium X620 mobile phone isn’t awesome at everything, and let’s face it not many mobile phones are, but the one thing the Philips Xenium X620 handset does offer that most don’t is excellent battery life. Although the Philips Xenium X620 only offers up a 2.4 inch QVGA display along ...
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